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The genus Populus is in the family Salicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Species in Populus

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Populus acuminata Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Populus adenopoda Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Populus afghanica (Aitch. & Hemsl.) C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Populus alaschanica Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Populus alba L.	Accepted		TRO
Populus amurensis Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Populus angustifolia E. James	Accepted		TRO
Populus baicalensis Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Populus balsamifera L.	Accepted		TRO
Populus beijingensis W.Y. Hsu	Accepted		TRO
Populus × berolinensis Dippel	Accepted		TRO
Populus × canadensis Moench	Accepted		TRO
Populus candicans Aiton	Accepted		TRO
Populus canescens (Aiton) Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Populus charbinensis C. Wang & Skvortsov	Accepted		TRO
Populus ciliata Wall. ex Royle	Accepted		TRO
Populus davidiana Dode	Accepted		TRO
Populus deltoides W. Bartram ex Marshall	Accepted		TRO
Populus dimorpha Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Populus euphratica Olivier	Accepted		TRO
Populus flexibilis Roz.	Accepted		TRO
Populus fremontii S. Watson	Accepted		TRO
Populus gansuensis C. Wang & H.L. Yang	Accepted		TRO
Populus girinensis Skvortsov	Accepted		TRO
Populus glauca Haines	Accepted		TRO
Populus × glaucicomans Dode	Accepted		TRO
Populus guzmanantlensis J.A. Vazquez G. & Cuevas	Accepted		TRO
Populus haoana Cheng & Z. Wang in Z. Wang & S. L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus × hopeiensis Hu & Chow	Accepted		TRO
Populus hsinganica C. Wang & Skvortsov	Accepted		TRO
Populus ilicifolia (Engl.) Rouleau	Accepted		TRO
Populus iliensis Drobow	Accepted		TRO
Populus intramongolica T.Y. Sun & E.W. Ma	Accepted		TRO
Populus × jrtyschensis Cheng-yuan Yang	Accepted		TRO
Populus kangdingensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus keerqinensis T.Y. Sun	Accepted		TRO
Populus koreana Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Populus lancifolia N. Chao	Accepted		TRO
Populus lasiocarpa Oliv.	Accepted		TRO
Populus laurifolia Ledeb.	Accepted		TRO
Populus mainlingensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus manshurica Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Populus maximowiczii A. Henry	Accepted		TRO
Populus mexicana Wesm. ex DC.	Accepted		TRO
Populus minhoensis S.F. Yang & H.F. Wu	Accepted		TRO
Populus nakaii Skvortsov	Accepted		TRO
Populus nigra L.	Accepted		TRO
Populus ningshanica C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus nivea Willd.	Accepted		TRO
Populus pamirica Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Populus pilosa Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Populus platyphylla T.Y. Sun	Accepted		TRO
Populus pruinosa Schrenk	Accepted		TRO
Populus przewalskii Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Populus pseudoglauca C. Wang & P.Y. Fu	Accepted		TRO
Populus pseudomaximowiczii C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus pseudosimonii Kitag.	Accepted		TRO
Populus × pseudotomentosa C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus purdomii Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Populus qamdoensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus qiongdaoensis T. Hong & P. Luo	Accepted		TRO
Populus × rasumowskiana Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Populus rotundifolia Griff.	Accepted		TRO
Populus schneideri (Rehder) N. Chao	Accepted		TRO
Populus shanxiensis C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus simaroa Rzed.	Accepted		TRO
Populus simonii Carrière	Accepted		TRO
Populus suaveolens Fisch.	Accepted		TRO
Populus szechuanica C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Populus talassica Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Populus tomentosa Carrière	Accepted		TRO
Populus tremula L.	Accepted		TRO
Populus tremuloides Michx.	Accepted		TRO
Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Populus trinervis C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus ussuriensis Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Populus violascens Dode	Accepted		TRO
Populus wenxianica Z.C. Feng & J.L. Guo ex G.H. Zhu	Accepted		TRO
Populus wilsonii C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Populus wuana C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus wulianensis S.B. Liang & X.W. Li	Accepted		TRO
Populus xiangchengensis Z. Wang & S. L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus × xiaohei T.S. Hwang & Liang	Accepted		TRO
Populus × xiaozhuanica W.Y. Hsu & Liang	Accepted		TRO
Populus yatungensis (Z. Wang & P.Y. Fu) C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus yuana C. Wang & S.L. Tung	Accepted		TRO
Populus yunnanensis Dode	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 199 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Populus. Of these 87 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 119 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Populus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 199 species names for the genus Populus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	87	43.7%
◕	Synonym	47	23.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	65	32.7%

All names

The status of the 318 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Populus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	117	36.8%
◕	Synonym	132	41.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	69	21.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 199 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Populus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	86	44	0	0	130	65.3%
	Low confidence	1	3	0	65	69	34.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Populus, are as follows: